| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance |
absolution
,
remission
,
remission of sin
,
remittal
|
| abbreviation pronounced as a word |
acronym
|
| consonant pronounced with aspiration |
aspirate
|
| diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s |
cedilla
|
| genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white |
Cereus
,
genus Cereus
|
| indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women |
Chukchi
,
Chukchi language
|
| long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening; naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America |
damask violet
,
Dame's violet
,
Hesperis matronalis
,
sweet rocket
|
| teeth, pronounced gap between |
diastema
|
| pronounced with sound omitted |
elide
|
| pronounced without stress when preceded by another word |
enclitic
|
| pronounced with back of tongue touching soft palate |
guttural
,
velar
|
| two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings |
homonym
|
| relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning |
homonymy
|
| two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear) |
homophone
|
| abbreviation pronounced letter by letter |
initialism
|
| judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons) |
judgement in rem
,
judgment in rem
|
| defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r' is pronounced as `l' |
lallation
|
| pronounced without stress when followed by another word |
proclitic
|
| three vowel sounds pronounced in a row |
triphthong
|
